Food News

To save you time and share ideas that may improve your school food service program, we curate news stories on school meals and childhood nutrition.

Date	Title	Source
1/14/23	Student lunch debt skyrocketing across country	CBS News
5/18/23	Colorado school district praised for ridding of milk cartons in lunchrooms	CBS News Colorado
10/10/19	Study: Students Aren’t Getting Enough Time To Eat Lunch	CBS Philly
9/12/18	School fundraisers could face new limites under federal rules	CBS Sacramento
1/25/21	Minnesota middle school awarded $10,000 grant for new breakfast program	CCX Media
12/12/22	Some milks served in schools exceed salt, sugar recommendations	Center for Science in the Public Interest
9/19/18	A benefit of free lunch for all: fewer students get repeatedly suspended, new study suggests	Chalkbeat
10/18/19	Universal free lunch is linked to better test scores, new report finds	Chalkbeat
12/21/20	The wait is nearly over: Congress set to provide over $50 billion for public schools	ChalkBeat
4/28/21	4 ways Biden’s American Families Plan would matter for schools and children	Chalkbeat
6/2/21	NYC schools served 96 million fewer meals to children amid the pandemic, new data show	Chalkbeat
8/2/22	Without free school meals for all, many fear lunch debt will return ‘with a vengeance’	Chalkbeat
12/21/22	Summer meals, funding for high-poverty schools: What the federal spending bill means for students	Chalkbeat
2/22/23	Most Colorado districts opts into universal meal program	Chalkbeat Colorado
12/9/21	Continued federal flexibility sought for school meals	Chalkbeat/Colorado
11/8/22	Election results: Tuesday returns favor Colorado Proposition FF, free school meals	Chalkbeat/Colorado
12/8/21	SNA president-elect: "The frustration is real"	Chalkbeat/Detroit
1/3/22	School nutrition pros on overcoming challenges	Chalkbeat/Detroit
8/16/21	Free meals affect students' idea of school	Chalkbeat/New York
8/6/21	Schools prioritize safety in classrooms, cafeterias	Chalkbeat/Tennessee
1/21/20	USDA tries to relax nutrition guidelines for school meals	Chicago Tribune
5/11/20	Madison County Schools delivering four times as many meals to students since March	Citizen Times
5/21/19	Can We Stop Kids From Being Shamed Over School Lunch Debt?	Civil Eats
9/12/19	What Have the Last 10 Years of School Food Policy Taught Us?	Civil Eats
3/7/20	Coronavirus is Closing Schools. Here’s What it Means for Millions of Kids Who Rely on School Meals.	Civil Eats
3/28/20	As Rural Schools Close, Some Hungry Kids to Get a Box of Processed Food	Civil Eats
1/26/21	The Pandemic Reveals Racial Gaps in School Meal Access	Civil Eats
8/23/21	Ag group update State Farm to School policy handbook	Civil Eats
2/10/22	USDA official discusses future of school meals	Civil Eats
6/15/22	Are expiring school meal waivers a looming catastrophe?	Civil Eats
10/6/22	The next chance to improve school meal access is coming up soon	Civil Eats
5/31/23	States are fighting to bring back free school meals	Civil Eats
4/1/19	April news and updates from CKC Good Food	CKC Good Food
2/3/20	CKC News: Remembering Caravan Serai	CKC Good Food
10/21/21	Serving school meals becoming difficult nationwide	CNBC
3/13/19	New York public schools to have 'Meatless Mondays' starting this fall	CNN
9/25/19	A new 'report card' on America's diet: It's not an 'F' but...	CNN
12/18/19	This 5-year-old paid off the lunch balances for 123 students by selling cocoa and cookies	CNN
3/2/20	How US schools are preparing for the coronavirus	CNN
3/14/20	With coronavirus closing schools, here's how you can help food insecure children	CNN
8/26/20	Millions of children threatened by hunger need Congress to come together	CNN
4/13/21	Children's healthiest meals of the day come from school cafeterias	CNN
9/29/21	USDA sends schools $1.5 billion to relieve student lunch crunch	CNN
10/29/21	Schools go to "great lengths" to serve healthy meals	CNN
12/5/21	School nutrition pro's decades-old cookbook reprinted	CNN
3/9/22	Millions of kids face risk of hunger if Congress doesn't extend pandemic school lunch waivers	CNN
6/19/22	Analysis: Summer meal participation could decline	CNN
6/24/22	Congress extends pandemic school lunch waivers, though not all kids will benefit	CNN
9/10/22	Next stress for many parents: First school lunch bills since 2020	CNN
9/20/20	4 things our nation should do to feed hungry students so they can learn	CNN Opinion